I'm hoping I'll see her around the Global Atheist Convention next year! Shelley Segal, whose song "Saved" has started to get some rave reviews already.In this interview for radio 3CR, she's talking about the upcoming "An Atheist Album" and plays an acoustic version of one of the tracks 'Eve' (lyrics follow after the jump): … [Read more...]

Firstly - today in Melbourne at Embiggen Books! Check out the podcast interview! The event is Contempt of Court: Unofficial Voices from the DOGS Australian High Court Case, 1981. Not only is it a talk by the book’s author Jean Ely – popular Melbourne comedian Rod Quantock, activist and former politician Joan Coxsedge and Max Wallace, author and 2010 Global Atheist Convention presenter and Director of the Australia New Zealand National Secular Association will be there too. Thursday. 6-7.30pm a … [Read more...]

If you're reading this? Donate! Go on, donate, help push my tally over the $400 mark- if just three people can get projects going and make the tally go this far, I'm certain even a small donation to Math with Words or Did You Know That? or Time For Current Events will make a big difference to students and schools. It all ends this Saturday!It's amazing how it's done with just one single line. Just one. All in spirals for a Faber Castell ad campaign. … [Read more...]

Wednesday Morning Links Of Love - Because If You Don't Know Then I Won't Tell More People And It Then Becomes Some Kind Of Inception-Style Vortex Of Missing Out On Cool Things.So, a comedian, a politician and a secular author walk into a bookstore...Firstly - this Thursday. 6-7.30pm at the Embiggen Bookstore, 97-203 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne. Email to RSVP at events (at) embiggenbooks (dot) com.If you're one of the people who have been keeping an eye on the Ron Williams high-court c … [Read more...]

From The Great Vaccination Debate Infographic, created by MedicalCodingCareerGuide.com, thanks to @JAlbietz (who got it from @ImmunizeCOKids, and so forth...).Created by: Medical Coding Career Guide … [Read more...]

You've probably seen the news reports getting excited about hoverboards - Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field.From Gizmondo: "An unidentified member of the university's Superconductivity Group School of Physics and Astronomy shows off the quantum locking, or quantum trapping, effects of a magnet that's been super cooled with liquid nitrogen. Now we've probably all seen demonstrations of super cooled magnets floating above a track before, with promises of … [Read more...]

Someone on Bing.com has been redirected to my blog while looking for 'morning nudity.' Yeesh.I just woke up after being unable to sleep from 4am to 7am. You don't want to see what I look like. Here, have a plush cold-virus instead.Yes, I'm still unwell. Thoughts for the day: I'm going to go do X. No, I can't - I don't think I can risk driving a car. I could always... no, I can't focus enough to get that done and that will require being able to keep track where is that damned tissue box a … [Read more...]

How to tell you're unwell? You interrogate everyone on Google + as to why they're following you, and become moved to tears when someone says 'I only follow teh awesum'. Then you have a bath for an hour... and forty-five minutes later, can't remember if you had a bath or not. I've accidentally let the cat outside and brought him in twice within ten minutes. In short, I am an absolute mess. :(But there's one thing I will remember to do correctly - give a shout-out to SkeptiCamp Melbourne. It's … [Read more...]

About The Author

Kylie Sturgess is a Philosophy teacher, media and psychology student, blogger at Patheos and podcaster at Token Skeptic. She has conducted over a hundred interviews including artists, scientists, politicians and activists, worldwide.